Hi all,
last week we had an inhouse demonstration of the skills of GitHub Copilot and we saw that it has great capabilities also in PL/SQL. Unfortunately, we had to use the IDE "Visual Studio Code" to generate PL/SQL samples, but as we decided to use GitHub Copilot in future, we would like to see these great features in TOAD instead of any other IDE.
Are there plans for an integration of GitHub Copilot in the near future? We would very much welcome that 
Best regards from Germany
-Rainer
Not necessarily with Copilot, but Quest is past the feasibility stage in looking at ways that generative AI can assist users or our products, especially in Toad.
We certainly welcome feedback or ideas that our customers have regarding how gen AI can be used in our product portfolio. If you're interested, we can broker a call with our Product Management team to discuss further.
Hello Gary,
I'm glad to hear that Quest is already working on AI integration and I hope that a solution will be ready in the near future.
I myself was absolutely convinced by a demonstration of GitHub Copilot, but I think that another, similarly good AI and developer can also support the daily programming work.
My English is not good enough to talk to product development, I'm afraid (this text is translated with DeepL). However, I am convinced that Quest does an excellent job even without customer feedback.
However, one feature for the AI is extremely important, and you are welcome to pass this on to the product developers: Interaction with the AI should be possible in different languages (as with Copilot) and not be limited to English. For us it is imperative that we can interact with the AI in German, everything else would be useless.
We are curious to see what solution Quest will present - hopefully soon.
Best regards from Germany
Rainer
Toad is the best Oracle editor NO QUESTION, but so many use GitHub for source and deploy, for pretty much everything. Grounding GenAI on our source code base would be vital to source code assist on our dev. Bing Copilot struggles with PL/SQL often making mistakes, especially with advanced techniques. Open Oracle examples for AI training are rare compared to other languages and systems, with some of the best narrative is hidden by MOS authentication. Oracle conferences are hyping AI dev, especially for Apex.
When developing your own, please don’t forget users environments. The diehard Toad users like me need to facilitate access to Oracle for (blinkered) “modern” devs and power users, many outside the Toad and Oracle ecosystem. So looking forward to your take, especially if it helps me integrate with the others.
Could you please share any news on adopting Copilot plugin in Toad in near future ? We are using VS Code w/ Copilot and it has been helping us a lot for Cloud native development and we would like to provide same productivity improvement to the SQL developers as well!
Any pointer would help if it is in the plan.
Toad Subscription edition now integrates with GitHub Copilot. Please see Introducing Toad integration with GitHub Copilot blog
Please try it out and tell us what you think.
We don't use the TOAD subscription edition and our CIO does not want to have it at the moment. When we have the need of a Copilot assistance, we use it in e.g. IntelliJ, there we can also ask questions about PL/SQL.
I have github for copilot, I have it working with VScode with sql developer extension latest version. I seen TOAD 25.2 should have integration now as well. I upgraded to Toad for Oracle Professional Edition (64-bit) 25.2.376.6086
and followed instructions in video https://blog.toadworld.com/introducing-toad-integration-with-github-copilot but dont see the option anywhere to configure it . I dont have anything on any menu bar which allows me to configure copilot the way the demo does, do I need to do anything?
GitHub Copilot integration (AI Code) is available in Toad for Oracle Subscription with an AI-enabled license. The license also includes AI Explain which provides plain English explanation of code. Toad for Oracle Subscription | Free Trial
If you are using Toad for Oracle Subscription and do not see the Copilot menu items, try resetting your toolbars to be sure you see all toolbar changes that have been implemented since previous versions. Right-click over Toad's main toolbar and choose Restore toolbar defaults.
thanks. Im not seeing it even after restoring toolbar defaults. How do I know if my edition has an AI-enabled license? Is that a specific license add-on thats required on top of the Professional edition license?
Navigate to Help | Licensing and select your license. The Edition value will show if it is an AI Subscription license. It sounds like you are not on the Subscription version of Toad though. The Subscription version of Toad requires you to sign in with your account (email and password) in order to start Toad. Your licenses are managed at licensing.toadworld.com. If you have put a license key into Toad to activate and if you do not see a user profile button at the top-right of the product then you are using the offline licensing version of Toad. No AI features are available for the offline version of Toad.
Thanks for explanation. Thats the answer, we're on the offline version. Any plans to add AI to the offline version?
